The mites in the skin of our faces
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Clearly, as good a reason as any to shower in the morning instead of the evening.
I used it - it works great!
All soap is antibacterial.
The video shows how to get some of them off your face if you want to study them. Not how to get rid of them permanently, or even temporarily.
Of shows a relationship. The Queen of the UK. Get rid of the mites on my face!
Romance de was translated into English as off because that is the appropriate translation of Latin (but not Romance) de.[1] And, the senses being unrelated, of diverged from off.
[1] Actually, the conventional translation my Latin instruction used for de as a verbal prefix was "down from". (As in "descend".) As a preposition it has a few different uses, including "off", "down from", and "about" (as in "what's that book about?"). "From" more generally would be e or ex, but "down from" gets its own preposition.
For your point [1], I did like de when I studied Spanish in school.
This construction makes it clear that we're taking some mites, presumably to do something with them, rather than trying to render the face mite-free.
I was under a belief that in a symbiotic relationship both parties benefit for the relationship, but I don't see and fail to find what humans gain from this relationship.
If anyone knows please do share!
I did read something about how they might help with unblocking our pores, but who knows.
> Mites have been blamed for a lot of things. The long association with humans might suggest that they also could have simple but important beneficial roles, for example, in keeping the pores in our face unplugged.
Does this mean they’ll die off relatively quickly if all body hair is cut off? Or does this happen beneath the skin?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_follicle
There are hair removal methods that permanently destroy the follicle. It's unknown whether Demodex can cope with that. Wouldn't that be an interesting study...
* low competition
* host symbiosis
* significant inbreeding
I wonder how much you can analogize this to a more complex organism like the grey wolf's transition to the domesticated dog? You could potentially use this research to extrapolate trends in canine evolution! As the mites have shed DNA that helped them survive in more hostile environments, we see dogs losing traits that allowed them to survive in their ancestral environment as well; pack hunting behavior, size, ear shape.
For a moment I thought it was a joke. Such are the times.
Study of commercial terpinen-4-ol products against mites:
So there would be much more cause for alarm if you believed that your face mites were a variety you weren't already adapted to.
That is fascinating (is hookworm from Africa and not present in Europe?). Where did you read/learn about this?
Correct. (Well, the other hookworm, A. duodenale, is present around the Mediterranean. Necator Americanus, "the American killer", is from Africa.)
I read about it on a blog, but it looks like there's some good discussion of the history in https://www.amazon.com/Parasites-Tales-Humanitys-Unwelcome-G...
One of the things I find most interesting about the whole N. Americanus affair is that hookworm was a public health disaster of colossal proportions, and the medical research that recognized it was a big, important advance... but medical treatment for the problem is mostly irrelevant. The (very successful) "medical" intervention that solved this problem was just convincing people to wear shoes.